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Multicolored 'mosaic' of mini farms surrounds Taiwan's largest river — Earth from spaceEarth from space A recent satellite photo shows a patchwork of tens of thousands of size-restricted farms tightly crammed into Taiwan's Yunlin County, which grows a majority of the island's food.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #64: The driving force of evolution — 9 across
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1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on EarthNew simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's skies thanks to a never-before-seen meteorological process.
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'Completely unexpected': Astronomers spy never-before-seen 'phoenix planet' rising from the ashes of a dead starAstronomers have spotted a rare "second-generation" exoplanet closely orbiting the nearby white dwarf HS 0209+0832. An unusual mixture of heavy elements inside this zombie star suggests that "this system has given birth to a new world using the foundations of the old one."
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Lost 'heart' of the Colorado River shines like a silver serpent in UtahEarth from space A 2016 astronaut photo mosaic highlights a "sunglint" phenomenon that transformed Lake Powell into a winding metallic "river." The artificial reservoir, which is the second largest in the country, is home to many visible and long-lost geological wonders.
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Live Science crossword #63: Spacecraft used in NASA's Artemis missions — 7 across
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Towering 'sponge' dome in Brazil is the secret source of nearby hot springsEarth from space A 2025 satellite photo shows the Caldas Novas dome, a 12-mile-long monolith that towers above the Brazilian state of Goiás. The structure acts as a giant sponge, soaking up water that helps fuel nearby hot springs.
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US Cold War-era spy satellite explodes above Earth — and nobody knows whyThe defunct USA 32 (or Farrah III) satellite, which launched in 1988, broke apart without warning on Sept. 13, around 480 miles above Earth's surface. Experts are still unsure what caused this sudden fragmentation, how many pieces it created, or how the debris might impact other nearby spacecraft.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #62: Ancient capital of the Aztec Empire — 2 down
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A giant cosmic 'fart' is making a wobbling zombie star repeatedly flash us, 'groundbreaking' observations revealA very strange binary star system keeps flashing Earth with X-ray flares. Scientists now understand why.
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A surprising slab of salt shines at the summit of the Sahara's tallest peakEarth from space A 2024 astronaut photo captured an unusual salt patch shining like snow on top of northern Chad's imposing Emi Koussi volcano, which is covered with ancient lava, hidden vents and shadowy waterways.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #61: Largest living land animals — 4 across
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An 'impossible' black hole merger may finally be solved — but it raises an even bigger mysteryNew research suggests that a perplexing signal created by a pair of colliding black holes may have been warped by a space-time phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This theory could finally explain the "impossible" size of the merging singularities, but it also poses a new problem.
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Giant 'baby' planet is the youngest world scientists have ever seenAstronomers have confirmed a large exoplanet is forming in the cloud of debris around a young star. At less than a million years old, it's the youngest exoplanet found so far.
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Peculiar land bridge separates a pair of colorful lakes in PatagoniaEarth from space A 2020 astronaut photo shows the unusual point where two contrastingly colored Patagonian lakes meet. The duo was originally a single body of water but was split by a narrow land bridge.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #60: British monarch who ruled for 70 years — 3 down
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Fragments of ancient alien tech may litter the moon — and scientists have a plan to find themResearchers propose that tiny technological remnants left over from extinct alien civilizations could have landed on the moon after traveling through interstellar space. It may not take long to find them, the team claims.
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The moon may have formed in just 5 hours, new simulations suggestNovel simulations that reassessed the ancient collision between Earth and the protoplanet Theia suggest that the moon could have emerged from the aftermath of this impact much more quickly than scientists previously thought.
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25 years ago, a NASA astronaut captured this haunting photo of the 9/11 attacksEarth from space During the Sept. 11 attacks, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson — the only American not on Earth at the time — snapped a "sobering" shot of smoke pouring across New York City as the second tower fell.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #59: The current geological era — 6 across
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Blue Origin rocket explosion sent sound waves 1,000 miles across the USWhen a New Glenn rocket blew apart at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in May, it released ultra-low-frequency sound waves that reached as far as Texas. Researchers estimate that the blast was roughly equivalent to the Chernobyl reactor explosion of 1986.
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Ghostly green lakes merge in Australian outback after 2 years of heavy rainEarth from space A 2024 satellite photo shows a series of ephemeral lakes that merged into a single emerald structure in Australia's Northern Territory following two years of extreme rainfall.
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Live Science crossword puzzle #58: Dinosaur with 3 horns — 10 across
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